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Valley Program for Aging Services has faced major challenges over its 50-year history. Most notably, the rapidly aging Baby Boomers and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan of Virginia hosted a roundtable yesterday to highlight her work to strengthen the care economy.
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Despite greater need for caregiving than ever before, care workers are overworked and underpaid, resulting in a severe workforce shortage.
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Valley Program for Aging Services (VPAS) and Waynesboro Public Library (WPL) will co-host a Memory Partners Open House on May 9.
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The Founder’s Day observance at Bridgewater College commemorates the April 3, 1854, birth of Daniel Christian Flory, who founded the college.
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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin is reviewing bills passed by the General Assembly to support gun violence prevention in the Commonwealth.
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Virginia Tech researchers are exploring a hybrid fostering program which may make things easier for caregivers and keep more dogs out of full animal shelters.
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In Roanoke today, Attorney General Jason Miyares and First Lady Suzanne S. Youngkin launched a fentanyl awareness campaign.
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The U.S. House today passed the Dr. Emmanuel Bilirakis and Honorable Jennifer Wexton National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced the National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act yesterday and goes before the U.S. House for a vote.
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